The DATA-KBR-BE: facilitating data-level access to KBR’s Collections for Open Science project is financed by the Belgian Science Policy Office (Belspo) as part of the Belgian Research Action through Interdisciplinary Networks, BRAIN 2.0 programme. It is an interdisciplinary collaboration, led by KBR, Royal Library of Belgium, including cultural heritage experts, digital humanities researchers and data scientists. The aim of DATA-KBR-BE is to optimise KBR’s existing ICT infrastructure to stimulate sustainable data-level access to KBR’s digitised and born-digital collections for digital humanities research. For this project, research teams at the universities of Ghent (GhentCDH and IDLab) and Antwerp (ACDC) work closely together with the digitisation, collections and ICT experts at KBR to co-design two interdisciplinary research scenarios. On the basis of these research scenarios, relevant thematic datasets from KBR’s digitised historical newspaper collection, BelgicaPress are extracted for reuse and analysis using digital humanities methods. This report provides an update on the achieved work, intermediary results, preliminary conclusions and recommendations for the second reporting period of the project (15.3.2021 - 15.3.2022). It also outlines the future prospects and planning for the next reporting period. The collaboration with the DATA-KBR-BE Scientific Advisory Board / Follow-up Committee, who provide scientific and guidance for the project, is also described. Furthermore, valorisation activities, any challenges including potential solutions, as well as any modifications to the project planning, e.g. personnel changes, since the initial report are also included. In close collaboration with BELSPO, in February 2022 the duration of the DATA-KBR-BE project was extended for a period of 24 months to 15.3.2024. This report therefore reflects the mid-term achievements of the project.